Living in Bondage
In the process of wrapping up the score for Living in Bondage:Breaking Free for producer Steve Gukas and director Ramsey Noah. Orchestral recordings coming up at the end of October!
NEWS
Cliffs of Freedom Soundtrack released
The soundtrack for Cliffs of Freedom Ā (starring Christopher Plummer, Billy Zane) has been released by Aegean Entertainment. I had a lot of fun scoring the film and it features an orchestral/choral score with ethnic instruments from Greece.
Kallis to Score Ulrich Thomsenās āGutterbeeā
From Film Music Reporter: George Kallis has been hired to score the upcoming comedy Gutterbee. The film marks the second directorial effort of Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen and stars Antony Starr, Ewen Bremner, W. Earl Brown, Pia Mechler, Joshua Harto, Clark Middleton, Chance Kelly and Garret Williams. The movie followsĀ two hopeless dreamers in small-town America who want to open the ultimate German sausage restaurant.
Hollywood Gr. Reporter-Kallis in top 5
Hollywood Greek Reporter:Ā George Kallis has worked as a film composer on a number of productions and feature films over the years. In 2018, his work was internationally recognized, winning both the āBreakthrough Composer of the Yearā awardĀ and āBest Score for a Feature Filmā for his work on āLast Knightā. The Greek-Cypriot composer has been racking up prestigious credits in the past year, and you can expect to see his name often in Hollywood credits from here on out.”
Sports Biopic ‘Lev Yashin’
Happy new year everyone! I am happy to be scoring the biopic sports drama ‘Lev Yashin’, which tells the personal story of the superstar goalkeeper. Yashin is the only goalkeeper in the history of football (soccer) to receive the Ballon d’Or award. The score will be a mixture of live orchestra and musical influences from the 50’s and 60’s.
Kallis wins Best Composer for a Feature Film Award!
I am very thankful to own a ‘Jerry’ award for ‘Best Composer for a Feature’ for The Last Warrior! The Jerry Goldsmith Awards gave us all a wonderful night!! The best part made some new and amazingly talented composer friends! The soundtrack can be found below! LINK TO AWARDS LIST
‘The Last Warrior’ nominated at the Jerry Goldsmith Awards
It’s very exciting that my score for ‘The Last Warrior’ has been nominated as best feature score at the Jerry Goldsmith Awards! Link here!
Music for LACMA doc ‘Beneath the Hagia Sophia’
It was very interesting to provide music for this fantastic documentary about one of the most ancient Cathedrals in the world, Agia Sophia. Parts of the old city of Constantinople were found underneath it! The documentary will be shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in September!
http://www.lacma.org/event/beneath-hagia-sophia
‘The Last Warrior’ preselected for Public Choice Award
My score forĀ ‘The Last Warrior’ has been preselected for the Public Choice Award at the World Soundtrack Awards which will be held in September. If you have the score Ā and would like to vote for it, the voting link is here: VOTE FOR THE LAST WARRIOR (SPOTIFY LINK AVAILABLE)
Fans of Music from the Movies
Join me in London on September 2018 for an evening talk about film music with renowned composers Julian NottĀ and John Lunn! More info here:Ā Fans of Film Music